Books On B&O History

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10013

Cabooses of the B&O Railroad, by Bob Hubler. 1994. 176 pages. Thorough history, rosters and diagrams. A fully
comprehensive and authoritative book on B&O cabooses. Published by this Society. Tons of B/W & Color
Photos. Hardback.

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10020

Baltimore and Ohio Trackside with Willis A. McCaleb. Written by Bruce K. Dicken and James M. Semon. This over 100
page all color book shows big time steam on the B&O during the 1950s. If you enjoy looking at color B&O steam
operations, you'll love this book.

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10023

American Locomotive Builders by John H. White. 112 pages, many illustrations, 1982. A short history of the many
builders of steam locos. Well over a hundred makers are listed. Soft back.

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10025

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Diesel Locomotive Roster Third Edition by James Mischke. This is a "must have" booklet that will provide comprehensive
information on each of the diesels that operated on the B&O. For example, there is a diesel locomotive roster
that provides a brief history on each engine, when it was built, it's original engine number, it's succeeding
numbers, when it was disposed of, and provides engine assignments for March, 1950; October, 1956; January, 1958; and
January, 1959.

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10039

Baltimore and Ohio Steam in Color by David T. Mainey. This is another of the great books on B&O steam that is
just full of 1950s era big time steam operations.

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10044

C&O and B&O Cabooses - Display and Private Owner Cars, VOL ONE, by Dwight Jones. Has 230 B/W photographs
of 200 B&O or C&O cabooses, where they now sit, as they are now painted, in 25 states and Canada. See
cabooses in museums, backyards, on short lines and tourist lines. Some restored to accurate paint and lettering, some
with unique paint. Arranged by class and series, with a section on moving cabooses by truck. 80 pages, color covers.
Softbound.

"Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia." Images of Rail Series, by Bob Withers. In 1827, a group of
Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other
eastern cities were developing. Thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered. Political pressure kept the
B&O out of Pennsylvania at first, and so track crews headed for what is now West Virginia, building mountainous
routes with torturous grades to Wheeling and Parkersburg. Eventually the B&O financed and acquired a spiderweb of
branch lines that covered much of the northern and central parts of the Mountain State. This book takes a close look
at the line's locomotives, passenger and freight trains, structures, and, most importantly, its people who
endeared their company to generations of travelers, shippers, and small Appalachian communities

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10101

"Railroad Cites: Jersey City, NJ" by Liljestrand & Sweetland. Photo story of the facilities of multiple
railroads in the city, including the B&O

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10106

"Trackside in the Virginias 1954-1969 with Wayne Sherwin" by William R. Sparkmon. The railroads of Virginia
and West Virginia are illustrated in full color during the late steam/early diesel period

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10107

"Dining on the B& O"; Recipes and Sidelights from a Bygone Age, by Thomas J. Greco and Karl D. Spence
(BORHS members), in Association with the B&O Railroad Museum. 2009, 176 pp., 16 color illustrations, 25
halftones. There are Preface, Foreword, and Introduction, but this is a book of original B&O Dining Car recipes,
cuisine that won wide acclaim as the finest railroad food in the country. Also with bibliography and index.

"Baltimore & Ohio Vol 2: Sunburst Trail to Chicago" by Ori, Salamon and Oroszi; 128 pp., H/C, all color. This is the original 1993 printing from Old Line Graphics overstock. A geographical trip west in photos taken in the 1980s.

"The War Came by Train" by Daniel C Toomey, Maryland scholar on the Civil War. This book relates the story of the B&O during the years of the Civil War and includes an appendix listing all locomotives mentioned in the text, copious endnotes for each chapter, a bibliography, and an index. It is sized at 6" by 9" and contains 292 pages with more than 100 illustrations. Herb Harwood states that it is "likely the last word" on the subject of the B&O perspective on the War.

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10138

"A Journey from Roads to Rails", 1800-1860, by David Shackelford. This book is authored by the Curator of the B&O Museum in Baltimore and includes an extensive bibliography as well as many footnotes to provide a potential reading list. It covers the development of transportation between Baltimore and Ellicotts Mills with concentration on the growth of the rural terminal city. 61 pp with color and B/W illustrations.

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10140

"A Trip by Rail in the Shenandoah Valley on the Baltimore & Ohio and the Southern Railway", by Bob Cohen. Station by station from Brunswick, MD to Lexington, VA. Each station stop has a description with a page or more of history and railroad information. 160 pgs with more than 100 illustrations, many in color.

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10142

"Encyclopedia of B&O Cabooses Vol 1, The Modern Cars", by Dwight Jones. This is the first of several volumes on B&O cabooses by the noted author of preceding softcover books. based upon almost 50 years of research, this hardcover book covers the C-26 through C-28 class cabs and Safety versions during the 1970s. 176 pgs with a short color section in the back.

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10143

"The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Maryland," by David Shackleford, This Arcadia Images of Rail book is a picture book in B/W describing the B&O by era within the state of Maryland. It also contains chapters on Mt Clare Shops and the Museum. The author was Curator of the B&O Museum and had access to many photos from the Museum.

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10144

"C&O/B&O In Color", by Bob Withers. As the merger scene in the eastern United States heated up in the early 1960s with Erie Lackawanna, N&W-NKP-Wabash, and talk of Penn Central, a union of a different type occurred between the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Baltimore and Ohio. While not a true "merger" for several reasons, the affiliation was dubbed "C&O/B&O" and was quite visible during the 1960s on timetables, advertisements, corporate reports, and especially trackside where C&O and B&O locomotives began mixing it up, especially on the B&O tracks.

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10145

"Encyclopedia of B&O Cabooses", Vol 2, Cars Built 1952 to 1966, by Dwight Jones. Hardbound, 176 pgs. Covers the I-17, I-18, and some related models, including photos, diagrams, lists, and notes of differences. Color photos at back of book. Also ancillary subjects as paint/lettering, trucks, and chapters on the DuBois Shops and International Car Co. This book follows the same format as volume 1 released a year earlier and includes very detailed coverage of cabooses built for the B&O from 1952 to 1966 including some miscellaneous cars added to the roster after that period. Coverage includes the I-17 class, I-17A class, I-18 class, C-15B class, M-26 boxcar conversions and wood cars transferred from C&O to B&O. Each detailed chapter includes extensive photo coverage, history text, dimensional diagram and a detailed roster by individual caboose number. There is a detailed listing of the I-17 and I-17A cabooses and where they were assigned prior to caboose pooling. Extensive coverage is included on the implementation of caboose pooling including internal company reports and communications as well as the various dates when specific regions of the B&O implemented pooling. Additional chapters cover I-18 Safety Cabooses, the Du Bois car shops, International Car Company, caboose costs, a map of B&O car shops, caboose trucks, caboose markers and company summary information on cabooses including a graph showing how many cabooses by class were on the railroad on January 1, 1965. Official B&O Painting and Lettering drawings are reproduced in a manner that all dimensional data is readable and useable by the reader. An interview with a B&O official explains how the M-26 boxcar conversions came about and an interview with Frankly Carr explains how the Chessie image was developed. This book is a must for B&O history students as well as modelers.

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10146

"Railroading Around Cumberland" by Pat Stakem. An Arcadia Images of Rail book. The author is noted for his knowledge of the railroads around Cumberland and has written several books about those railroads. This book addresses the earliest railroads to the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. 128 pages, b/w photos.

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10147

"Staten Island Rapid Transit", by Marc Pitanza with much help from Ed Bommer. An Arcadia Images of Rail book. This book is a true photographic history of the SIRT from its beginning to the current day. 128 pages, B/W photos.

"West of Cumberland, Book 1, Grafton to Wheeling", by Terry Arbogast. A huge book of more that 460 pages, with 16 in color. This book covers the route starting from Grafton with historical text and human interest stories by the people who operated the line. Many B/W photos and nicely done maps.

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10152

"Power Clash, PRR vs B&O, Motive Power and Passenger Traffic Competition 1827-1962", by David Messer with Frank Wrabel. This book presents the story of motive power development by the Pennsy and our B&O. It also shows the level of competition between those two railroads. Also included is a look at the competition in passenger trains between the two roads. There are more than 370 pages and 400 photos, including 35 pages with color photos.

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10153

"Rails' Tales", edited by Ray Lichty. RABO (Retired Administrators of the B&O) members relate stories from their working days on the B&O from the 1950s into the 1970s. These stories are extracted from the Club's newsletter News & Notes. This smaller-format, hard cover book is 329 pages with B/W photos supplied and captioned by Herb Harwood. There is a very complete index.

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10155

"Trackside around Rochester 1970-1980" with Daniel Orr and Greg Marling. A Morning Sun book covering the railroads in Rochester. There is an 11 page section on the B&O, but there are additional B&O subjects in another section. Each of the roads has an introductory description and then a full-color section of photos: Penn Central, Lehigh Valley, Erie Lackawanna, B&O, Pittsburgh & Lehigh Jct. Composite, and Conrail. A few maps provide helpful orientation.

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10156

"Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway In Color Volume 5: The B&O Era," by Mike Zollitsch. This volume is the final one of the BR&P series. It is an all-color Morning Sun book covering the BR&P under control of the B&O starting in 1932. There is a chapter on facilities, locations, and customers. Then there are chapters by decade into the 1970s when Chessie appears. More than half of the book covers steam.

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10157

"The Met, a History of the Metropolitan Branch..., Its Stations and Towns." This small softbound book is published by the Germantown Historical Society, written by member Susan Soderberg. It contains photos of every station built for the line. There are also photos of various railroad structures.

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10158

"The Steam and Diesel Era in Wheeling West Virginia", Photographs by JJ Young, compiled by Nicholas Fry, Gregory Smith, & Elizabeth Davis-Young. The collection of photos taken by JJ Young over nearly 70 years in the Wheeling area has been reviewed for inclusion in this 200 page book. While the photos show at least 5 major railroads, fully half are of the B&O. JJ Young's photos were the subject of a special edition 2007 calendar published by the Society (Item 22107). Nick Fry and Greg Smith are Society members and Elizabeth Davis-Young is the widow of the photographer.

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10159

The BORHS Company Store is no longer offering this book. Receive a signed copy, delivered for $24.00 (incl. S&H), or unsigned copy for $27.00 (incl. S&H) , by sending a check to:

"The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Pittsburgh Division" by Society member Bruce Elliott. An all-color book from Arcadia's 'Images of Modern America' series, this 95 page book has been compiled by Society member Bruce Elliott using his own photographs of B&O lines in the Pittsburgh area. The railroads included are the B&O Main Line; Pittsburgh and Western; Somerset and Cambria; Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburgh; and Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore.

10160

"Encyclopedia of B&O Cabooses, Vol 4, I-5 and I-16 Cars" by Dwight Jones. Covers the I-5 and I-16 classes. Additional chapters on Updates to previous volume and caboose details similar to previous volumes. Indexed by subject and photo.

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10162

"Baltimore & Ohio, Best of Bob Collins", by Bob Withers. This book is an early publication of Morning Sun's softbound series. It is 92 pages of strong color showing B&O locomotives at work all over the system in chronological order from 1949 to 1981.

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10163

"The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hancock, WV to Cumberland, MD, by Stan Trzoniec. This later book follows the East End line westbound from Hancock to Cumberland completing a two-book set to Connellsville, with over 215 black and white and color photos, 174 hardbound pages, and a history of the line. With dates of photographs as requested.

"John W Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad", by Kathleen Waters Sander. 327 pages with notes and index. A few B/W illustrations. This is a comprehensive biography of Garrett, but by far the majority of the book covers his time as president of the B&O.

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10166

"B&O Power in Color, Volume 1, Steam & Cab Units", by Bob Withers. This Morning Sun book is the first in a series of all-color volumes to cover all diesels of the B&O. There is also a section of photos of steam locomotive types on the road in the late '40s 'til the end of steam. A short section of the book shows other types of locomotion, such as electrics, motor cars, rubber-tired tractors, tugboats, and NYC motor coaches. The end pieces list the entire diesel roster.

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10167

"West of Cumberland, Book 2, MR / Short Line", by Terry Arbogast. Covers the B&O MR sub route between Fairmont and Clarksburg (with its beginnings as the Monongahela River RR) and the Short Line Sub between Clarksburg and Brooklyn Jct. The book is hardbound, comprising 488 pages on 100# coated paper (24pages in color), with 350 photos. It contains a history of the lines with information of their construction and of early wrecks. Many dozens of railroaders who ran over these lines were interviewed (over 100 pages in book). Detailed maps show the lines as they were in the 1920's.